This Broadview edition presents the novel in its original illustrated Graphic magazine version, never before republished, and includes a critical introduction and supporting materials that demonstrate the novelтАЩs relationship to late-Victorian issues such as imperialism, archaeology, race, evolution, and the rise of the тАЬNew Woman.тАЭ
Andrew M. Stauffer is an Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press) and the co-editor of Robert BrowningтАЩs Poetry (W.W. Norton).